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Chapters
How to Make Websites and Content
How to Make Websites and Content
What You’ll Find Here
How hidden incentives shape recommendations, where web hosting cuts corners, and how to choose a host. Worth reading first, since it’s where this course’s reasoning comes from.
25 free tutorials, start to finish. The big choices behind it (domain, hosting, platform, and email) are laid out in Course Decisions, including why domain and hosting are taught separately instead of bundled. Skim it before starting, or jump in and come back to it later.
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Domain
This course keeps domain and hosting separate — most hosts can register a domain too, but bundling them means the host controls both, and untangling later gets messy fast. Some hosts just make leaving inconvenient; others register the domain in their own name entirely. Separation also matters if a host is acquired, changes ownership, or shuts down — none of that touches an independently registered domain. That’s why registration is taught through Namecheap instead: straightforward pricing, full control over where the domain points, and years of reliable, hands-on use — no host cooperation required, and nothing tying the two together that shouldn’t be.
Hosting
Shared hosting’s out — too many sites competing for the same limited resources, and any one of them having a bad day can slow the rest down with it. Since this course builds on WordPress, managed WordPress hosting is the natural fit — a site’s own resources, not a shared pool, and nobody handing you a server to run yourself either. Because budgets and project demands aren’t one-size-fits-all, this course walks you through two managed WordPress hosts, both running on fast Google Cloud infrastructure: Templ (templ.io) for an entry-level, lower-cost starting point, and Kinsta for bigger needs and higher-tier plans.
Templ.io gives new and smaller sites an affordable way onto Google Cloud (starting at $15/month with a 10-day free trial), complete with server-level WordPress caching, automatic daily backups, free SSL, and responsive support without cutting corners. Kinsta steps in when you want more headroom and higher-tier infrastructure (starting at $35/month with the first month free), giving each site its own isolated container alongside Cloudflare Enterprise edge caching included by default across 300+ global locations so pages stay fast for visitors wherever they are. Pick whichever fits your budget and goals — either way, you set it up once, and nothing is left bolted on or half-configured once the tutorial’s done.
Platform
This course teaches website-building through WordPress, with Bricks Builder handling the design. WordPress powers a massive share of the web, so there is already a plugin, tutorial, or forum thread for nearly anything that comes up, instead of a dead end on a smaller platform. It scales with ambition: a simple site today, something far bigger down the road, with no switching tools or starting over. It also lines up neatly with both hosts taught here, since each specializes in WordPress on top of already being solid Google Cloud hosting.
WordPress is the long-running workhorse, and AI makes it more powerful, not less relevant.* Used manually, AI can build things that plug into WordPress and extend what it does, and WordPress is expected to stay around for a long time. AI can also build visually stunning sites entirely on its own, with no WordPress involved. That path is real, and it gets its own coverage in future content. This course teaches a solid WordPress foundation for a real, functional site first.
* The AI and API integration options inside WordPress settings are still early, and likely to stay that way for a while. The power described here comes from using AI manually to build things that integrate with WordPress.
Email at your own domain reads more professional than a free Gmail address, and that matters most early on, when every extra signup and password is one more thing standing in the way of getting the site up. Proton Mail is the pick here: one login covers email, a password manager, calendar, and cloud storage, instead of separate free tools with separate passwords and separate points of failure. Fewer accounts means less to set up and less that can go wrong while finishing the site.
Chapter One (Setup)
Every site needs a foundation, and this chapter builds it: a domain, hosting connected to that domain, a login for each person who needs one, and an email address that matches the site. Each lesson is short and hands-on, and each one sets up the next. By the end, there’s a live WordPress site on a domain of its own, with professional email through Proton Mail, ready for Chapter Two.
The order builds on itself. The domain comes first, followed by two hosting options on Google Cloud — Templ.io for an entry-level, lower-cost plan and Kinsta for higher-tier needs — each covering how to connect the domain to the site, since the host supplies the information that step needs. WP Users and email follow after, since email uses the same DNS panel for its setup.
Domain and hosting are deliberately kept separate. Bundling them gives one company control of both, and separating them keeps the choice yours if a host ever needs to change — including if you start out on Templ and scale up to Kinsta down the road.
In this chapter
- A. Domain → register the site’s address
- B. Hosting (Templ.io) → lower-cost hosting, domain connected
- C. Hosting (Kinsta) → higher-tier hosting, domain connected
- D. WP Users → create and manage user accounts
- E. Domain Based Email → email at the site’s own domain
Chapter Two (Explore)
With the site live, this chapter is a guided tour of the WordPress dashboard. Each lesson covers one area: how to get around, which settings matter, where media lives, and how themes, plugins, and widgets change what a site does and how it looks. By the end, the dashboard stops feeling like a maze, and every menu has a purpose.
The focus is on what to change and what to leave alone. WordPress ships with plenty of options that never need touching, and knowing which ones are safe to skip saves a lot of time and second-guessing.
In this chapter
- A. Navigating WordPress → find your way around the dashboard
- B. Settings → what to change and what to skip
- C. Media Library → upload, organize, and reuse files
- D. Themes → how themes work and what they control
- E. Plugins → how plugins work and how to add one
- F. Widgets → how widgets work and where they show up
Chapter Three (Build)
This chapter turns an empty site into a structured one. Pages and posts come first, then the way they nest, how categories and tags organize content, and how menus tie it all together. Bricks Builder comes last, once the structure is in place, so the design work has something solid to sit on.
Structure before design is deliberate. A site that is organized well is easier to build, easier to navigate, and easier to change later.
In this chapter
- A. Pages & Posts → the two building blocks of every site
- B. Nested Pages → organize pages into parents and children
- C. Cats & Tags → sort content by topic
- D. Menus → build the navigation visitors use
- E. Bricks Builder → design pages visually on the canvas
Chapter Four (Create)
A site needs content, and this chapter covers making it: AI assistants for writing and ideas, an asset library for images, video, and sound, AI voiceovers and music, and video editing in DaVinci Resolve. No prior experience is required.
AI speeds up the work but doesn’t replace judgment. Each lesson shows where these tools help, where they fall short, and how to keep the result sounding like it came from a person with something to say.
In this chapter
- A. LLMs & GenAI → AI assistants for writing and ideas
- B. Envato Elements → stock footage, music, graphics, templates
- C. AI Voiceovers → add narration without recording a voice
- D. AI Music → generate original tracks for videos
- E. Video Editing → cut, polish, and export in DaVinci Resolve
Chapter Five (Earn)
The last chapter covers turning a site into income, starting with a realistic look at what making money online involves. Affiliate marketing, brand deals, and e-commerce follow, each with the real tradeoffs, so there is nothing to discover later that should have been mentioned up front.
Honesty runs through this chapter the same way it runs through the rest of the site. Affiliate links are labeled, recommendations come with a non-affiliate option, and nothing here promises results that depend on luck.
In this chapter
- A. Before Making Money Online → what to know first, and what’s realistic
- B. Affiliate Marketing → earn commissions and keep readers’ trust
- C. Brand Deals → work with companies on sponsored content
- D. E-Commerce → sell products directly from the site
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